Netting question + other issues

I have an indica going (unknown strain and will probably never know) that is now 118 days old from seed. She is 6' and bushy as hell and has started to show early signs of flowering but strangely some of the pistils have turned a reddish brown color, but not all of them. Some of the tips of the leaves have also turned yellow but I think this might have been because I was giving it a bit too much NPK. I'm giving it a quarter teaspoon per two gallons of water which is the ratio in the directions and feeding it this once every three days.

Because the wind is becoming a risk and I already had the wind snap off the top of one shoot, I put a net over the whole thing and built a trellis and have also LOOSELY tied off all the shoots to stakes. Is it likely to grow much more by harvest in which case I'll need to take off the net? Can I do damage to it by leaves being cramped by the net?

As a bonus question, I'm also curious to get a second opinion on yield projections and when you think it will be harvestable. Thanks.

Yeah, she will grow quite a bit more between now and harvest, you will need to come up with netting with larger squares that she can grow through.

A lot of people use concrete remesh wire https://www.lowes.com/pd/Steel-Remesh-Sheet-Common-8-ft-x-20-ft-Actual-7-916-ft-x-19-8-ft/1001149864 or something similar that has big enough spacing to allow the branches to grow through the wire and use it as a support structure and something to tie your branches too.

Is there anything that can be used to block the wind?

I would be bad at providing a yield estimation, I don't even weigh mine but she looks good, you should get a decent harvest.

As to when she will be harvestable depends on what strain she is and your latitude, but she is farther along than my plants are. My guess without knowing the strain or where you are at would be the last week of September to the second week of October.

That netting is going to end up wrapped in all your buds
Breaking a branch or two is common outdoors
It is a weed and almost always pulls through

Funkentelechy said:

Yeah, she will grow quite a bit more between now and harvest, you will need to come up with netting with larger squares that she can grow through.

A lot of people use concrete remesh wire https://www.lowes.com/pd/Steel-Remesh-Sheet-Common-8-ft-x-20-ft-Actual-7-916-ft-x-19-8-ft/1001149864 or something similar that has big enough spacing to allow the branches to grow through the wire and use it as a support structure and something to tie your branches too.

Is there anything that can be used to block the wind?

I would be bad at providing a yield estimation, I don't even weigh mine but she looks good, you should get a decent harvest.

As to when she will be harvestable depends on what strain she is and your latitude, but she is farther along than my plants are. My guess without knowing the strain or where you are at would be the last week of September to the second week of October.

Click to expand...

If she hasn't even done her final stretch yet then she's probably going to be like 8 feet tall or something ridiculous. Yeah the bird netting is just temporary. The weather has been shitty, i'm just trying to hold her over. This netting will come down in another 5 days and then i'll go to Lowes and get some of that stuff. I have nothing to fully block the wind the best I can do is support all the branches.

I ask about harvest because i'm hoping the sooner the better due to liability concerns. If i'm not mistaken she's visible on google earth now and i'm a paranoid mfkr. Last thing i want to do is have to destroy her before I can even reap what I sow. I've put hundreds of hours into this. Fuck the feds and all this red tape man I dream of a day everyone can do this 100% legally and they target things that are more worth targeting, like the horrible damage caused to millions of people by tobacco and alcohol every year. But it'll never happen.

shattascam said:

I ask about harvest because i'm hoping the sooner the better due to liability concerns. If i'm not mistaken she's visible on google earth now and i'm a paranoid mfkr. Last thing i want to do is have to destroy her before I can even reap what I sow. I've put hundreds of hours into this. Fuck the feds and all this red tape man I dream of a day everyone can do this 100% legally and they target things that are more worth targeting, like the horrible damage caused to millions of people by tobacco and alcohol every year. But it'll never happen.

Click to expand...

100% agree, I live in California so I'm lucky in that respect, you see large plants that are visible from street in people's yards everywhere here, it's no big deal.

Federal legalization is way overdue.

Good luck on your grow.

I discovered why it is necessary to use some type of support structure on my first outdoor 5 years ago.
10' tall monster that split open and ended up with bamboo stakes holding everything up(that's my avatar pic).
I now construct a simple cage about 30" in diameter using field fencing in 2' tall sections.
I use that cylinder to train the plant and weave the branches through the fencing to act as a brace as the plant gets heavier.
As the plant gets taller, I can add another cylinder on top of the first and continue weaving.
The other MAJOR improvement for outdoor grows is using a hoophouse type cover.
Reduces issues with rain soaked colas acting as clubs in the wind.

GBAUTO said:

I discovered why it is necessary to use some type of support structure on my first outdoor 5 years ago.
10' tall monster that split open and ended up with bamboo stakes holding everything up(that's my avatar pic).
I now construct a simple cage about 30" in diameter using field fencing in 2' tall sections.
I use that cylinder to train the plant and weave the branches through the fencing to act as a brace as the plant gets heavier.
As the plant gets taller, I can add another cylinder on top of the first and continue weaving.
The other MAJOR improvement for outdoor grows is using a hoophouse type cover.
Reduces issues with rain soaked colas acting as clubs in the wind.

Click to expand...

If mine stretches say another 2-3' when all is said and done I could have almost 10 feet on my hands. I'll probably do like you and use fencing like
Funkentelechy suggested pretty soon probably within a week or two because by then it will outgrow the net.

My plant's way more than 30" in diameter though, more like 96". If I'm lucky it will divert its resources into bushiness rather than height